TheMook

It looks like today’s update to 4.3.2 solved the problem for now! Thank you very, very much to the WPtouch team for the fast resolution — we non-coders out here depend on your talent to keep our creative endeavors going.

Thanks for the replies, Chris. I restored an earlier version but it continued to display and act like v 4.3.1 in the Dashboard. Probably to do with caches or something — it was just easier to switch to another plugin for the time being than bother troubleshooting it.

I’ll keep an eye out for future updates and hope they address the change (or that my host eventually update their PHP).

Eesh, yikes, this is bad, made my whole site inaccessible.

I have tried both making the above PHP changes and updating to the very latest version of WPTouch. Neither has corrected the issue, and my host is in no rush to update PHP past 5.2 — is that just the end of things then?

UPDATE: I am still completely mystified, but on a whim I tried to upload some older pics… and they uploaded fine into the Media Library. So, I tried a few more, and they uploaded fine as well. But then, eventually, some wouldn’t… but most did.

Some of the ones that correctly upload are bigger or smaller in file size than the original pics I need to upload; some are bigger or smaller in pixel size. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it that I can see.

I’m at my wit’s end. Am I supposed to stop using WP after like 10 years?! Have to redesign my entire site under a different CMS just because after a couple updates I suddenly can’t upload images?

*sigh*

I’m sorry. I know software just sometimes does wonky stuff… I get it. But it is so, so frustrating. I need to figure this out! I simply don’t have the time to rebuild my entire site from scratch, especially when there’s no real reason I should have to… obviously WP is still working just fine for millions.

UPDATE 2: I have discovered that if I open one of the un-uploadable image files in Photoshop and simply Save it… it will suddenly upload. I don’t change the size, I don’t rename it, I don’t crop it, I just… save it, with no changes, and then it will upload to the Media Library.

Obviously I would still love to hear if anyone knows why this is happening, because this is a pretty shoddy workaround, but I’m at least pleased that after wasting 4 hours of my day, I can post these stupid pics and be done with it.

Anyone? Thoughts?